Download YouTube Videos

Google has a solid amount of cash in its pockets, but with all the recent lawsuits against YouTube one has to wonder if it’s time to salvage whatever videos you like from the service and save them somewhere where evil attorneys won’t look – your hard drive.

Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It’s hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we’ve chosen 23 YouTube downloader tools we’ve found to be actually working. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on:

Web based

1. YouTubeX doesn’t have a lot of options, but it’s simple, and it works. It also enables you to share the YouTube video with your friends via e-mail. Unfortunately, all the files are called get_video, and you have to add the .flv extension manually.

www.youtubex.com

2. KeepVid is another simple site. No hassle, works not only for YouTube movies but for a number of other sites, including Google Video, MySpace Video, DailyMotion and others. Again, you have to add the .flv extension by hand.

keepvid.com

3. VideoDownloader is very similar to KeepVid, but supports even more video sharing sites, and it’s also available as a Firefox extension. Just like with KeepVid, all downloads are in .flv format. We recommend MediaCoder for free conversion.

javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

4. YouTube Downloads takes the cake in the longest domain name contest. It also separates itself by using a proxy for downloading videos, which means that you might be able to get videos even if YouTube access is blocked at your workplace or in the country you live. Just search Google for YouTube videos, and copy/paste the URL into YouTube Downloads.

www.downloadandsaveyoutubevideos.info

5. Zamzar is an online file format conversion site which can do a lot more than just converting YouTube videos to another format and downloading them to your hard drive, but it’s doing a great job so we had to include it here. Thoroughly tested by us and highly recommended. See the video of it in action here.

www.zamzar.com

6. YouTubia separates itself from the crowd by enabling you to search as well as download YouTube files. Options are scarce, but it works.

www.youtubia.com

7. VidGrab is another simple site that works with YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and Break.com. Besides the download function, the site also sports a top list of most viewed videos.

www.vidgrab.com

8. Vixy offers both downloading videos and converting them into DivX avi, mov, mp4, 3gp, or mp3 (for audio only) formats. The conversion works well enough, but sometimes results in slightly choppy playback.

vixy.net

9. Hey! Watch is an ambitious video encoding service with a large number of options, especially when it comes to converting videos to portable media player formats (it even supports my trusty iRiver H340.) Most online video converters often produce crappy results, with video and audio being out of sync, and this problem is also present on Hey! Watch, but it happens rarely.

heywatch.com

10. Media Converter can be a little slow, but the results of the video conversion are quite good. We’ve converted some YouTube videos to avi (mpeg4 + mp3) format and it worked well. The tool is not limited to video conversion; it also supports several audio and document formats.

www.mediaconverter.org

11. KcoolOnline is a web-based converter which supports 98 video sharing web sites, including YouTube. It has literally zero options, so it’s recommended for those who like to keep it simple.

www.kcoolonline.com

Windows Applications

12. VDownloader is a desktop application that catches YouTube, Google Video, and Grinvi video links from your clipboard. Start it up, copy the video URL and click download. It automatically converts the videos to mpeg or avi formats.

www.softpedia.com/progDownload/VDownloader-Download-51327.html

13. YouTube Grabber downloads files from Youtube in .flv format. Copy and paste the URL of a video from YouTube into the program, press «grab», and the file will be downloaded into the same directory as the program.

www.download.com/Youtube-Grabber/3000-2071_4-10574801.html

14. Orbit Downloader is a desktop application which can download videos from a wide variety of sites. The download process is very simple, just hover your mouse over the video and you’ll get a button that says «Get It». The developers of the program claim that it’s very fast (up to 500% faster, they say) due to its P2P download technology.

www.orbitdownloader.com

15. My Video Downloader. With all these free tools, it’s actually funny to see a commercial one. It’s called My Video Downloader, and while it does look solid and offers a lot of conversion options (a free trial which enables you to download 10 videos is available), we’re not sure it offers enough to warrant a price tag.

myvideodownloader.com

16. KeepV is a desktop downloader as well as a converter, which can convert the downloaded videos from flv to avi, mov, mp4, or 3gp formats.

keepv.com

17. VideoGet boasts being able to download video clips from more than 100 video sharing websites. We haven’t tested all of them, so we’re just going to take their word for it. It’s a deskop application with a nice, simple interface, and a solid number of options.

nuclear-coffee.com/php/products.php

18. TubeSucker is a desktop YouTube video downloader with some interesting options, including batch downloading large amounts of videos from a certain user. See the video tour on the site.

www.newrad.com/software/tubesucker/

OS X

19. Get Tube is an OS X application which lets you download video or audio files from YouTube, DailyMotion and Kewego.

web.mac.com/simonvrel/iWeb/software/v.1.0.html

Linux

20. Youtube-dl. Here’s some love for Linux users. Youtube-dl is a program that lets you download YouTube clips in flv format, which both mplayer and VLC can easily chew up.

www.nuxified.org/blog/download_youtube_video_files_with_youtube_dl

21. YouTube Ripper is not actually an application; it’s a simple script that rips all videos that match a keyword, uploaded by a specific YouTube user. We don’t really have ideas on what to use this for, but maybe you do! PHP port is also available.

nlindblad.org/2007/04/08/youtube-ripper-collectors-edition/

Plugins

22. Vidtaker is a Firefox-only plugin that can download videos from most streaming websites: Google Video, YouTube, MySpace, as well as a number of nasty adult SomethingTube spinoffs (Pornotube, YouPorn etc). It automatically converts the video to a DivX avi.

www.vidtaker.com

23. Ook? Video Ook! Yes, that’s the full name of this Firefox plugin, which enables you to download videos from YouTube and several other video sharing web sites. It features one click downloading and integration with the popular DownThemAll Firefox plugin.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2584

Posting Videos from You Tube

When you open the page on You Tube with your video it looks like this.


To post this video in our Blog just copy the Embed code (in red) and paste it on Edit HTML (Editar HTML).


Than just type your opinions about it!
To preview your post click the Visualize (Visualizar).
If it’s ok click Publish (Publicar Postagem).

About poetries

Last week I was looking our last book activities and I saw an activitie about how to do a poetry. It reminds me one poetry that I did recently, so I decide to share with you my first poetry in English, that it is:

Sometimes we just have let things go
Without think, without doubts
Just go...
We always imagine a perfect way
But it’s untrue
It not happens like we want it to happen
It just happen
And it’s certainly the better way for us
I’m sure about this
So, just let them go...

Kelly Esther (05/24/07)

It doesn't follow rules, but it follow just one, the rule of my thoughts, of my heart.

This is the way that I found to thank all of you for this adorable semester. See you on the next!

Hugs ;)

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

BOSTON, MA — The editors of the American Heritage^® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.

"The words we suggest," says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, "are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language."

The following is the entire list of 100 words:

abjure abrogate abstemious acumen antebellum auspicious belie bellicose bowdlerize chicanery chromosome churlish circumlocution circumnavigate deciduous deleterious diffident enervate enfranchise epiphany equinox euro evanescent expurgate facetious fatuous feckless fiduciary filibuster gamete gauche gerrymander hegemony hemoglobin homogeneous hubris hypotenuse impeach incognito incontrovertible inculcate infrastructure interpolate irony jejune kinetic kowtow laissez faire lexicon loquacious

lugubrious metamorphosis mitosis moiety nanotechnology nihilism nomenclature nonsectarian notarize obsequious oligarchy omnipotent orthography oxidize parabola paradigm parameter pecuniary photosynthesis plagiarize plasma polymer precipitous quasar quotidian recapitulate reciprocal reparation respiration sanguine soliloquy subjugate suffragist supercilious tautology taxonomy tectonic tempestuous thermodynamics totalitarian unctuous usurp vacuous vehement vortex winnow wrought xenophobe yeoman ziggurat

Nobel

The most famous Nobel winner is Albert Einstein, won in 1921 for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, but others like Marie Curie, the first women and 2 times Nobel winner and Guglielmo Marconi, for development of wireless telegraphy, became important for their contributions. Movies made John Nash, pioneering analysis of equilibria in the non-cooperative games, and Doctors Without Borders, peace 1999, world wide know.

The 2006 winners were:

Peace
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"

Literature
Orhan Pamuk
"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"

Economics
Edmund S. Phelps
"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy".

Chemistry
Roger D. Kornberg
"for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription".

Physics
John C. Mather and Georde F. Smoot
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

Medicine
Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello
"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA".

A good link for research about Nobel Prizes.
http://www.nobelprizes.com/

Women In Art

LibriVox: free audiobooks

About LibriVox
LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?

LibriVox Objective
To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.

Our Fundamental Principles
Librivox is a non-commercial, non-profit and ad-free project
Librivox donates its recordings to the public domain
Librivox is powered by volunteers
Librivox maintains a loose and open structure
Librivox welcomes all volunteers from across the globe

What We Do
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (through a podcast, catalog, and bit torrents). We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project, and we operate almost exclusively through Internet communications. We have a flat structure, designed to let people do just what they want to do, but we do have several slightly different types of volunteers:
Readers, who read chapters of books, or poems or short works;
Book Coordinators, who organize a group of Readers to complete a book;
Moderators, who help Readers & Book Coordinators find their way;
Meta Coordinators, who are responsible for cataloging completed projects;
Admin, who do some other stuff.
Volunteering for LiriVox is easy and does not require any experience with recording or audio engineering or acting or public speaking. All you need is a computer, some free recording software, and your own voice. You will find us a welcoming and friendly community, and if you have any questions they’re likely to be answered quickly on our busy forum.
We get most of our texts from Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive and ibiblio.org host our audio files.
For the moment we don’t need any money, we’ll let you know if that changes!
Here’s how it works (generally):
LibriVox volunteers suggest books from the public domain, and if there is volunteer interest
A Book Coordinator (any volunteer willing to do the job) will post the book in the Readers Wanted section of the forum
Volunteers “claim” chapters, and record them to mp3.
Volunteers send the files to the Book Coordinator (often using yousendit.com)
The Book Coordinator sends the completed Book to a Meta Coordinator
The Meta Coordinator posts the book to the Listeners Wanted section of the forum, for Proof-Listening
The complete, Proof-Listened book is then uploaded to our server space (either Internet Archive or iBiblio), and cataloged
The files are available to anyone to use, from our catalog, and we podcast books one at a time. We also offer bit torrents.
So, practically:
If you would like to help, check the LibriVox Volunteer page, or go straight to the forum.
If you would like to subscribe to the podcast, please: a) in iTunes, click here: iTunes 1-click, or b) copy and paste the feed link (http://librivox.org/podcast.xml) into your podcast receiver (for instance, Juice)
Feel free to browse our catalog